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Obol - IV. Béla
| Issuer | Slavonia, Province of |
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| Year | 1235-1270 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A double cross with rimmed arms dominates the reverse field, its shaft rising from the base where two small crowned heads face one another in profile. Mintmarks occupy the upper lateral fields on either side of the cross. Above the cross, a six-pointed star with a central dot appears to the left, and a crescent with a central dot appears to the right, serving as die-identifying symbols. The composition is characteristic of Slavonian banovac coinage issued under Béla IV. |
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Béla IV's Slavonian obols were produced under the provincial banovac system, struck at the Zagreb mint under the authority of the Croatian-Slavonian ban. The series was introduced as part of a broader monetary reorganization following the catastrophic Mongol invasion of 1241–42, which devastated the Hungarian kingdom's administrative and economic infrastructure. Béla spent much of his remaining reign rebuilding, and regularizing provincial coinage was part of that effort.
The ÉH#5 sits among the earliest attributions in Réthy's catalog for this issuer.